National Affairs: End Junkets?

No sooner had the gavel fallen on the 67th Session of Congress, than
junketing trips at Government expense began. "Junketing"a
word of obscure originmeans a feast, a pleasure trip, a good time,
and has for years been applied to the custom of members of Congress to
spend the Congresional recesses in traveling about the world on public
funds. Junketing trips find their justification in being ostensibly
tours of investigation in the interests of the people. In practice,
they are just free vacation sprees. Inspection trips this year will
take Congressmen to Panama, Hawaii,...